As we have at last found the sea after travelling lots and lots of miles to get here, we thought we should visit it today. Bob unloaded the scooter and while I was at the campsite reception reporting their wifi was useless at night, Bob had a brainwave. When I got back he had used it to transport the loo cassette up to the chemi-loo emptying point. When it’s two flights of stairs and really a bit of an uphill walk from the pitch to the sanitaires sometimes a little help is needed. We then scootered down to the town, which is a good mile downhill. Despite the slightly out of town campsite location and having rather a climb to get to the campsite facilities we are agreed that we like this campsite very much. We ... read more

Last night’s thunder storm was soon over and apart from the dripping wet towel we’d left out the overnight rain did nothing except leave some exceedingly attractive bands of clouds hanging round the mountains. Certainly made for some interesting photos on our drive and the ‘new camera’, the HTC phone, seems to have managed its new role in life quite well. We headed back down the Vercors valley to the outskirts of Grenoble, managed to avoid any snarl up in the traffic and took the road due south. The scenery was fantastic, lovely anyway but with the addition of the cloud decorations on the mountain tops, quite wondrous really. The further we drove the more the weather improved and the grey morning start soon became lovely blue again and warm again – plus lots of fluffy ... read more

Not quite as far to drive today and we set off at a leisurely pace, heading due South. As I sit on the left of the Tandy my earlier photos of the day of the beautiful mountain scenery were difficult as the sun from the East was so bright. However those photos are far better than any which I’ll manage on the move after today. In the afternoon, the shutter button of my faithful and very overworked Minolta Dynax digital Slr camera stopped working (it has been a bit iffy a couple of times so I was not surprised) and all attempts to persuade it to work again have failed. My phone camera is going to be a very poor substitute and I am very sad. So is the camera which will be going to the ... read more

Can’t begin to describe what a lovely drive we had today. What contrasts of lovely countryside, excellent roads, pretty little towns and villages and beautiful scenery. The air seemed super clean and fresh and even the cows enhanced the scene with the sounds of their bells as we drove past. All helped by some glorious sunshine, so hot it was burning my arm through the Tandy open window. We knew we had a long drive, 250 miles is quite a drive in a 3.5 ton motorhome as Bob’s shoulders bear witness. We didn’t know it was going to be quite such a good drive. The roads were 95% excellent which always makes the driving so much easier. The countryside was so varied that it was a delight to drive through it. We started with the pristine ... read more

.Not quite as sunny as forecast when we woke but good enough for a scooter day out. As it happened by midday the sun came out properly and we had a rather lovely blue sky day. First stop on our scooter tour of Verdun and its WWl historical sites was the Underground Citadel. Built in the 1600s to defend the city which has long been in the disputed area between France and Germany it now houses a rather brilliant display of its usage during the war. We did the tour on an automated ‘truck’ which took us along dark tunnels in which filmshows suddenly appeared on walls which then parted to let us pass through. At one point we almost appeared to be on a plane looking down and then the, fortunately short, trip through the ... read more